Here are some snaps:

Users can Edit/Delete existing Lists. Public Lists created by a user can be viewed at:
http://twitter.com/username/listname; one can follow Public Lists created by others. Here is such a List created by Twitter Team:

http://twitter.com/twitter/team

Twitter List is not yet available to all; this feature will make Twitter more usable. Let’s see when it goes live for all.

‘Orkut Promote’ lets you Promote Text, Photos and Videos across the network. Log in to Orkut and then Click on the ‘promote‘ link in the left column.

You will find 2 tabs – ‘create a promotion’ and ‘my promotions’.

‘Create a promotion’ lets you create your promotion using an easy editor.

It shows Preview as you make changes.

‘My promotion’ lets you evaluate the performance of you promotions. Here are the snaps.

Once promotions are created, you can stop it, delete it but cannot modify it. Moreover, once you stop a promotion – it enters into the ‘disabled’ state forever, there is no way to activate it again. Hope more features will be added to Orkut Promotion soon.

Want to know more about Orkut Promotion? Try it OR learn it from Google.

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Date & Time:  August 5, 2009 at 7.30 pm.

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Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 (India)
Tel: 91-11-43663333
Date & Time:  August 6, 2009 at 7 pm.

Get ready to make your iGoogle homepage colorful and lively. Add comics themes; let your favorite comic’s characters accompany you on the web.

The ‘less is more’ touch makes it more like a search engine. Page Title also seems to have been modified – really really long page title that cannot be accommodated by firefox and the brand name is pushed out of the range of the title bar.

This looks odd – since the portal has got a trendy look (read “Google-look”), the title should not be so long; “Rediff.com – Indian Search Engine” could leave a better impact.

News, Movies, Cricket, Money, Rediffmail, My Page, iShare and Shopping – these sections are displayed on the home page along with a link to other services. Some news headlines and related videos are also displayed on the right side of the page. The main search box remains at the top.

Previously, links to Rediff matchmaker, Rediff blogs used to be displayed on the home page. They may decide to highlight these services on homepage periodically. Let’s wait and see what else Rediff has under its sleeves.

Work from home culture is not much popular in India. Indians feel comfortable to work in an office. Most people commute kilometers everyday. Commute Easy is an effort to make the journey easier. It offers a platform to the Indian commuters; here, anybody can find a pool and enter into the network of people who use the same route to go to work everyday. 

Let’s take an example: if you go to Sector V, Salt Lake from M.G. Road everyday at 9:30 am and return at 7:00 pm, you can find people who follow the same route and same time schedule. If both of you own vehicles, you can fix up a routine to decide whose car would be used on which day of the week. If there are five members in the group and all of them own vehicles, everybody needs to drive their cars just once in a week! Thus you end up saving a lot of money of fuel, right? 

When number of heads increases, you might decide to rent a car or mini bus and share the cost. No need to wait for the bus, auto or taxi; no need to fight in the crowded public conveyance – you can commute easily and comfortably. Log on to Commute Easy to know how it works.

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According to Alex Wissner-Gross, Harvard University Physicist, one Google search produces 7gram of Carbon dioxide and millions of people use Google without knowing the fact. But even if they come to know the fact, will they stop using Google? That’s not possible; and if they do, global economy will be in danger. 

But why environmentalists are behind Google? All web searches are likely to generate CO2 then why Google is being blamed only? Because the way it operates. 

First, Google data centers involve huge deal of power. Secondly, to provide finest search result in minimum time, Google search engine sends queries to multiple servers and returns the result from the center that processes the query in shortest time. 

However, it cannot be said, that other search engines do not have any impact on environment. The truth is when you switch on your PC, browse internet, visit web pages that contain images, animation, videos and graphics, send emails, chat and write blogs – you contribute to global warming. 

Hence, blaming Google is not the solution. Data centers, where 24×7 power supply is mandatory, must be equipped with alternative energy all over the world. 

And Google has started working on this front. Google is committed to reduce its impact on earth’s environment. Visit Going Green at Google to know more about this. 

Moreover, in response to Alex Wissner-Gross, Google had published a blog post describing the power consumption of a Google search in a realistic and authentic manner. According to this calculation, one Google search produces 0.2gram of CO2. This calculation seems so authentic that Alex had to reconsider his calculation. Learn more about the debate on Official Google Blog. 

Whatever is the correct figure, we need to be more cautious about our internet usage. Can we still use it for fun? What do you think?

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Bigadda is all set to target the internet savvy generation of India. The generation that has just entered professional sphere or still in college, university and school is very much familiar with internet, unlike their predecessors.

This generation is very much likely to access internet on mobile phone. And that’s why Bigadda is successful! They are helping people stay connected through mobile 24×7.

Three ways to connect Bigadda through Mobile:

• Access Bigadda via SMS
• MobileAdda with lots of interactivity including options to send Free SMS
• Access Bigadda via WAP
  

It is true that with internet accessibility on mobile, anybody can do these things with other social networking platforms like orkut, twitter etc. Then how Bigadda is different?

The reason is: they are forcing people to access internet via mobile – they are creating the need through attractive commercials as television is still the most popular marketing platform. Watch this one: